Here’s another excellent online resource for finding CD information. Especially if you’ve got a few MP3s and don’t know what album they were from or who sang a particular song. It’s called Gracenote. It used to be “cddb” for CD Database, but a few years ago it became Gracenote. Just do a search for artist, disc, or song title and you get a list of matches that you can browse through.

I’ve gotten MP3s sent to me by friends who didn’t know what group performed it, or that kind of thing, and when I needed to find out, Gracenote was just the place. In fact, I think Gracenote is the source that many music players use to look up CD info.

A word of caution, though. The information in Gracenote CAN be uploaded by individuals, so you will occasionally find misspellings or mistakes. Still, it’s a very worthwhile resource.

Gracenote’s self-description:

The first step in media management begins with knowing what’s in your collection. Today’s consumer can quickly amass thousands of songs making media management critical to a consumer’s experience. The ability to navigate and organize large music collections is largely dependent on accurately identifying and categorizing songs, albums and artists that it contains. Gracenote MusicID™ is the essential ingredient for digital media recognition of CDs, digital music files and streaming audio. With the most comprehensive database of music recordings in the world, the Gracenote Media Database contains more than 55 million tracks and 4 million CDs, spanning more than 200 countries and territories, and 80 languages.

[tags]music, CDs, media, media management[/tags]